Karl Fogel said:
> Your team could just keep a text file mapping labels
> to revisions, for example, and then have a script that parses the file
> and does the requested Subversion operation.
Since Revision numbers are unique per transaction this mapping would
seem to be the best way of handling this. How's the idea of SVN
keeping an independent table of entries in the database solely used for
the purpose of allowing users to create messages against the current or
a given revision:
svn history [-r rev] [-m / --message arg] [-F / --file arg]
(perhaps instead, or also, call it 'mark', 'comment' or 'revcomment')
I suggest doing it this way rather than externally so that a) SVN
provides a solution, b) so that the information is all kept together in
the one database.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Brooke
On 15/01/2005, at 3:50 AM, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Hugo Heden <heden@foi.se> writes:
>> In May 2004 I posed a question on this list about "labeling"
>> functionality "for the typical project manager" (as opposed to regular
>> svn-tagging, see below), see
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=10537
>> for an archive view of that message, and now I would like to ask
>> again.
>>
>> At that time the response was that this feature had been discussed at
>> length on the dev-list ("Revision Indexes") .. "wait and
>> see". However, looking at the roadmap,
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/roadmap.html, there does not seem to be
>> any plans to introduce such functionality in the near future.
>>
>> What is the current status on this?
>>
>> The question follows in part below (copy-pasted from the May
>> 2004-message).
>
> The same, I think: "No action planned." It seems that no developer
> finds this compelling enough to implement, or review in depth. Sorry,
> I know that's not the answer you were looking for. I personally would
> rather see it implemented as a wrapper around Subversion, than as a
> native feature. Your team could just keep a text file mapping labels
> to revisions, for example, and then have a script that parses the file
> and does the requested Subversion operation.
>
> The set of developers changes over time (to see how, post patches! :-)
> ),
> so this response might be different someday, of course.
>
> Best,
> -Karl
>
>> <snip>
>> Good day all,
>>
>> I am in trouble. I have convinced my project managers that we should
>> try out Subversion in a project. It all works fine, especially for
>> the programmers. The "trunk-tags-branches-model" works excellent for
>> us when working on the source code tree.
>>
>> However, the project managers keep asking about certain functionality
>> (see below), and I can't figure out what to tell them.
>>
>> I am considering to file this as an RFE, but I assume other people
>> have encountered this as well. How do you people "out there" solve the
>> following problem?
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> Here we go. People (our project managers) would like to be able to do
>> (something similar to) the following:
>>
>> 1) Enter some directory in the (trunk of the) project tree, where some
>> document (currently of interest) resides:
>>
>> % cd /home/myname/myproj/Requirements/UseCaseDoc
>> % ls
>> doc.tex image.gif makefile 2a) Set an (unversioned) textual "label"
>> (or "alias" or "tag") for any
>> given repository revision number -- for any item in the tree (a
>> directory or a file). In effect, such a "label" would work as a
>> *textual alias* for the repository revision number, an alias that is
>> "in scope" for a certain item only -- not the whole repository. I have
>> invented some mock svn-subcommands to illustrate. For example:
>>
>> % svn status -u
>> Status against revision: 354
>>
>> % svn labelset "VERSION 0.2.0" -m "after first review meeting" .
>> Setting label "VERSION 0.2.0" on revision 354 of directory "."
>>
>> % svn labelset -r201 "VERSION 0.1.9" -m "performed spellcheck" .
>> Setting label "VERSION 0.1.9" on revision 201 of directory "."
>>
>> 2b) For any given item (file or directory), list the (whole)
>> "label-history" of the item. % svn labellist .
>> rev label comment
>> ---- ------------- ----------------
>> r354 -- VERSION 0.2.0 -- after first review meeting
>> r201 -- VERSION 0.1.9 -- performed spellcheck
>> r121 -- VERSION 0.1.0 -- initial version
>>
>>
>> 2c) Use the label (just as with ordinary repository revision numbers)
>> to do svn update:
>>
>> % svn update --label "VERSION 0.1.9" .
>> U doc.tex
>> U image.gif
>> U makefile
>> Updated to revision 201, with label "VERSION 0.1.9".
>>
>> ====================
>> </snip>
>>
>>
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